>“Now imagine a history referred not to London, Paris, Berlin

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>“Now imagine a history referred not to London, Paris, Berlin or St. Petersburg but to Constantinople. The war between Turkey and Russia becomes the crucial war of the nineteenth century. It produces the Treaty of Berlin, which leads to this present crisis and who knows what deeper tragedies awaiting us... Germans come down here on tours and marvel at how Oriental everything is. ‘Look! Serbs and Croats, wearing fezzes over their blond hair! Blue eyes, regarding us from behind the Muslim veil! Amazing!’ … and once again the Muslim hordes move westward, unappeasable, to gather, again, before the gates of Vienna – never mind that it’s been unfortified for centuries, the old glacis built over with public offices and bourgeois housing, the suburbs penetrated easily as any Austrian whore – it cannot be true, God would not permit – but here is their hour at hand, and in their panic, what is the first thing they think to do? They turn and swallow Bosnia. Yes, that will fix everything! Leaving us all now to wait, here in the winter twilight, for the first thunder of spring.”

What the fuck? I hate Austrians now.